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SMS phishing networks

Incidents implicated systems

Incident 15343 Report
Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

2026-05-01

Google alleged in a civil lawsuit that the China-based network Outsider Enterprise used Gemini and other AI tools to help create phishing websites for large-scale text-message scams impersonating companies and government services. Google said the network coordinated through Telegram, generated thousands of fake sites and fraudulent URLs, sent 2.5 million Android messages during a two-week period in May 2026, and financially scammed hundreds of thousands of people.

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Incident 9911 Report
Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

2025-03-14

Scammers have allegedly been using AI-generated imposter websites and phishing emails to impersonate the IRS. They have reportedly been tricking taxpayers into providing personal and financial information. There has been a reported surge in tax-related AI scams leading up to Tax Day 2025, with fraudulent domains mimicking IRS services, along with fake websites, emails, and text messages. The IRS has warned taxpayers to verify official sites and avoid unsolicited links.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Phishers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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Scammers impersonating the IRS

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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Scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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Cybercriminals

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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Black-box AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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Generative AI fraud tools

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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Generative AI developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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Taxpayers in the United States

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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General public of the United States

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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U.S. citizens

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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Identity theft victims

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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IRS

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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AI-powered phishing kits

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 991
    1 Report

    Alleged AI-Generated IRS Scam Websites Used to Defraud U.S. Taxpayers

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Scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Outsider Enterprise

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Scammers in China

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Cybercriminals in China

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Google

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Google DeepMind

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Large language model developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Google users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Android users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Consumers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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E-ZPass

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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United States Postal Service

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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YouTube

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Gemini

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Android

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Telegram

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Google Cloud

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Google Drive

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Code generation systems

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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AI-assisted phishing infrastructure

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Phishing kits

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Fraudulent URLs

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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Smishing infrastructure

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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SMS messaging networks

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1534
    3 Reports

    Google Alleged Outsider Enterprise Used Gemini to Create Phishing Sites for Text-Message Scams

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